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<h2>Panel Survey of Income Dynamics </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>a cross-section from 1993
</p>
<p><em>number of observations</em> :  4856
</p>
<p><em>observation</em> :  individuals
</p>
<p><em>country</em> :  United States
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(PSID)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A dataframe containing :
</p>

<dl>
<dt>intnum</dt><dd><p>1968 interview number</p>
</dd>
<dt>persnum</dt><dd><p>person number</p>
</dd>
<dt>age</dt><dd><p>age of individual</p>
</dd>
<dt>educatn</dt><dd><p>highest grade completed</p>
</dd>
<dt>earnings</dt><dd><p>total labor income</p>
</dd>
<dt>hours</dt><dd><p>annual work hours</p>
</dd>
<dt>kids</dt><dd><p>live births to this individual</p>
</dd>
<dt>married</dt><dd><p>last known marital status (married, never married, windowed, divorced, separated, NA/DF, no histories)</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>

<p>Panel Survey of Income Dynamics.
</p>


<h3>References</h3>

<p>Cameron, A.C.  and  P.K.  Trivedi (2005) <em>Microeconometrics : methods and applications</em>, Cambridge, pp. 295&ndash;300.
</p>


<h3>See Also</h3>

<p><code>Index.Source</code>, <code>Index.Economics</code>, <code>Index.Econometrics</code>, <code>Index.Observations</code></p>


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